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It has been a while since the last time i changed OS for my phone. In the past, I have used many types of OSes including:

Dumb phones (like the picture above!)

Windows Phone (6.5 and below..) – O2 Mini

Symbian – thru Nokia Communicator E90 (look above too!)

iOS (from the first iPhone to iPhone 4 – maybe not iPhone 4s)

Google Android (not as refined as iPhone so screw it)

I pretty much happy with most of the OSes except for Windows Phone – it was slow, clunky and was just not my type. But then again, given where they were – Windows Phone was pretty advanced then. The nearest competitor at that time was probably Palm Treo – but Palm Treo didn’t look cool (never thought QWERTY keyboard would be a good thing!). Touch screen seems to be the in thing.

Nokia Communicator E90 is definitely a good phone. Full of functionality and plus – it gives me the opportunity to try out push-emails! For the first time, using an E series – I have access to Nokia’s Mail for Exchange capability. It was awesome! But it definitely somewhat “took too much” of my life because I was perpetually at work. Replying email like’s nobody’s business. But the again, somebody – somewhat – somehow will need to pay for the cost of my expensive purchases. Nokia Communicator E90 was so bloody expensive! I think the phone itself cost about RM3500 at the point of purchase!. Anyway – that was the good old days. In fact, I think I did not sell my E90. I should go dig thru my treasure chest and perhaps will find E90 some there. Maybe it can still work!

Blackberry Revolution…

After using pretty much a lot of phones – then finally I changed to Blackberry. It took me a long time move to Blackberry as the change was driven by the corporate direction. The management of my previous company decided to adopt Blackberry – and purchase Blackberry Enterprise Server for the management team! It was awesome. My first phone was a Blackberry 8700.

My life – again was never the same again. Over the top messaging seems to be the future! No more SMSes (hardly) and BBM really rocks (then… of course). Email was coming in faster as ever! Roaming cost was much lower as the data was compressed by RIM servers… but… but… the hardware looks dated. From that 8700 – I have changed to something like 4 blackberries, Blackberry torch 9800 being the latest one. Lousy piece of hardware – but still have all the functionality of Blackberry. In fact – soon I will probably ditch it and go ahead with Apple… or … Windows Phone.

Apple iPhone

Moving back to Accenture – was a sign that i needed to look at things differently! One of it is of course with regards to workforce mobility. In Accenture – access to emails via Blackberry is only allowed to a certain levels. People like me can only use the following platforms to get connectivity to Exchange:

Apple

Windows

Android

Naturally – being an iPhone user, I immediately moved my main number to Apple and shifted my somewhat backup but nice number to Blackberry. The initial migration was tough – as I was not very used to using iPhone as an email reader. But – thank god for the good keyboard, I finally gotten used to it and since then been using it.

Looks damn good liao. Seriously – since it’s based on Nokia N9, i must say the hardware looks sexier than iPhone. Thin, light and nice screen. Resolution is definitely not as good as the iPhone Retina display – but sometimes – who cares about it. The question is of course whether I can get used to Windows Phone Mango. I have tried typing on it – i like! I really like the suggestions that comes out above the keyboard, rather than the auto-correct on iPhone.

I also love the metro look and feel. It’s clean and very informative, in comparison to iPhone Notification center (which is pretty new!). Well – time will tell when I can get my hands on this. At this point time, I’ll keep it in my dreams and maybe – one fine day when it’s out I’ll have a look and decide!